How long is your commute to your climbing gym?

It just occurred to me that I've always lived within a ~20-minute drive of a climbing gym, and I'm curious how far people regularly travel to climb indoors (or outdoors, for that matter). I currently live about 15 mins from my gym.

Now about 15 minutes; previous were 40 minutes (sucked significantly but only lasted 2 years) and 5 minutes.

I currently live a few blocks over from my climbing gym. It takes longer to drive there than it does to jog or ride a bike there!

In the past it was a 20 minute drive, not too bad.

10 minute drive

Currently a 10 minute drive/bike. I’ve commuted up to 1 hour in the past though. 

The gyms I currently go to are between 30-55 min from my house (one of them is 20 min from my work though, so I usually go there straight from work).

I also have driven to a gym that is 2 hrs away on a weekend many times. (Yes, that’s 4 hrs of driving to a gym!!! Insane!! But up until a few months ago this was the only gym near me that had walls taller than 25 feet, and the lead climbing option)

I’m very much looking forward to a new gym that is supposed to open up this spring, just 10 min from my house. 

1hr.  But it forms a triangle with my 1hr commute, so I’ve convinced myself that if I go en route to work it’s the same as having a gym 1/2 hour away, if that makes sense.

20-30 min.

Lena chita wrote: The gyms I currently go to are between 30-55 min from my house (one of them is 20 min from my work though, so I usually go there straight from work).

I also have driven to a gym that is 2 hrs away on a weekend many times. (Yes, that’s 4 hrs of driving to a gym!!! Insane!! But up until a few months ago this was the only gym near me that had walls taller than 25 feet, and the lead climbing option)

I’m very much looking forward to a new gym that is supposed to open up this spring, just 10 min from my house. 

Almost exactly the same for me. My gym closed abruptly last spring, the other two options are both small. So, I am planning on a four hour drive this Monday, for a big gym. It is January in Idaho, after all. Still, I got outside a few times!

Next winter, if all goes well, I will have a nice gym conveniently located halfway between work and home, two miles from either. Yay.

Best, Helen

3 hours, gotta love being stuck in northern Wisconsin over winter break

Now it's 30 mins, or 45 in traffic.  I liked it when I lived closer (closest was a 3 minute drive).  I wouldn't want to be much further away

I live 45 min from 3 gyms, none are closer. The commute sucks but having three gyms gives more variety

7ish minutes. 20 minutes to a boulder field, 1 hourish to a crag

35 minutes to the rope climbing gym.  There’s a bouldering gym close but my body doesn’t like bouldering anymore. 

10 minutes to a gym, 40 minutes to the Gunks.

40 minutes and I try to go 3 times a week

closest I've ever lived was a 5 min walk from a crag when I was in boarding school. Nowadays it's  10 to 20 min depending on what crag I want to go to. If you count the campus climbing wall as a gym then that's only like 5 min drive but I don't really ever climb there anymore, I just set.

5 min walk. I purposely moved across the street.

25 minutes to local gym, 1 hr 15 min to the lower peninsula’s premier climbing destination. 4 hr to MRG in Ohio, 8+ hrs to RRG,  9 to NRG. Oh Michigan...

closest about 10 . furthest 45

20 minutes to either Earth Treks, Carderock or Great Falls.